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Her own enthusiasm for the project, backed up by her most generous contribution, proved contagious, and inside of two weeks, not counting Henriette's check, we were in possession of over seventeen thousand dollars, one lady going so far as to give us all her bridge winnings for a week. "And now for the grand coup, Bunny," said Mrs. Van Raffles, when I had returned with the spoil. "Great Scot!"
The merry-making and feasting continued, the fêtes still being given in Madame's honor, and "the modest violet" might have remained hidden beneath its leaves had not Madame Henriette's schemes involved Louise.
When the doctor came again, I revealed to him the nature of my pure Henriette's self-reproach.
Again swelled the notes of the Norman melody, and this time the Mother heard too. The two sprang to their feet. Henriette dashed to balcony window. At the end of the street she saw a figure clad in beggar's rags that she thought she knew. Henriette's cry echoed down the street and impinged on the blind beggar's brain.
"She stamped her foot upon the flowers, and M. Benest turned and fled from her. Nay, in his haste, taking a short-cut towards the signpost, he plunged his wooden leg deep in the marsh, and tumbled helpless, overwhelmed with shame. "He never passed the signpost again, nor caught another glimpse of Mademoiselle Henriette's cap.
I know that you are without news of your brother. Ah, that poor Maurice, how I pity him, shut up in Paris, with no gas, no wood, no bread, perhaps! And that young man whom you have been nursing, that friend of your brother's oh! a little bird has told me all about it isn't it for his sake you are here to-day?" Henriette's conscience smote her, and she did not answer.
This conversation had made us all very sad; we remained for a long time thoughtful and silent, until, feeling the situation to be painful, I rose, wishing them good night, and I saw that Henriette's face wore a look of great excitement.
Nothing could be done in the Courts, as it was the legal vacation, but Henriette's solicitors arranged to send out a commission to take the Bruels' evidence at Tangier, and to bring the matter before The President at the earliest opportunity. As for ourselves, I persuaded Henriette to take a cottage at Marlow on the Upper Thames, where Colonel Annesley was a constant guest, and Charlie Forrester.
I will own to you that I dreaded a return to Clochegourde, and it was equally repugnant to me to go to Frapesle, where I could see my Henriette's windows. Here, at Sache, I was near her. I lived for some days in a room which looked on the tranquil, solitary valley I have mentioned to you.
The Man of Meat grasps Picard firmly by the collar and pulls him forth. With the other hand he raises the axe to chop the offender's head off, thinks better of it, twirls Picard swiftly around, and using the flat of the chopper spanks the rear of the Picard anatomy, sending him sprawling into the limbo. So that little Henriette's excursion into Freedom is unattended and alone.
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